A scene from the short film “This Is Normal,” about a young deaf woman who undergoes an experimental medical procedure that is supposed to “cure” her of her deafness and give her the ability to hear. Photo: Superfest Disability Film Festival

A young woman has an opportunity to “cure” her deafness through an experimental medical procedure in “This Is Normal.” Her dilemma: “Is it worth giving up who you’ve been for who you could become?”

Another woman, climber Maureen Beck, scales mountains despite being born without a lower left arm in “Stumped.”

Maureen Beck climbs a mountain in a scene from the short documentary “Stumped.” Photo: Superfest Disability Film Festival

Those are just two of the stories told during the two-day Superfest Disability Film Festival on Saturday, Oct. 20, at the Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life in Berkeley and Sunday, Oct. 21, at the Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco.

The traveling film festival began in Los Angeles in 1970, and San Francisco’s Lighthouse for the Blind and Visually Impaired and the Paul K. Longmore Institute on Disability at San Francisco State have been longtime co-sponsors. Superfest bills itself as one of the few festivals worldwide that is completely accessible to filmgoers with disabilities.